The "Body Check": Why Your To-Do List is Trying to Kill You (And How to Stop It)
I blog about any and everything—women’s empowerment, health, the deep-seated feelings we usually hide behind a "fine, thanks." But lately? I haven’t felt like much of anything. I’ll be real: I’ve been putting my self-care so far on the back burner it was basically in the neighbor’s yard. And my body? She finally had enough. She didn’t send a polite email; she staged a full-blown coup. It started with a three-week asthma flare-up that had me sounding like a croupy baby, and then—just for spice—an excruciating toothache that has me counting the minutes until the dentist can save my soul. Sitting there, drained and throbbing, I realized I’d been running on fumes. As a single mom of two working 40+ hours a week, my weekend "me-time" is usually just five minutes of staring blankly at the wall behind the tv. Ladies—married, single, or "it’s complicated"—we have to stop being the last item on our own lists. If we don't put ourselves at the top, our bodies wi...